• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC AER fork discussion

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lankydoug said:
The problem with air forks is if you're a big guy and very far outside the average guy window of 5'10' 165 lbs then you have to increase the air pressure which is no different than preloading a spring. If you have to go too far it stacks just like preloading a weak spring. The solution would be to make the fork tube bigger so you could have a bigger air chamber. Of course no manufacturer is going to do that so I'll have to stick with a spring fork. I will admit that the Husky I rode with the AER48 forks felt really light up front, I got more feedback on the little stuff but not in a bad way just different. For me KYB has them all beat.
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My local KTM suspension guru lowered the oil level in the air side and added a slightly heavier oil to the "inner chamber". That made a huge difference on my AERs. No more harshness in the upper stroke and it sill stays high in the stroke. Even with the comp turned out double what i had it at when I brought them in.
 
Cosmokenney said:
My l
My local KTM suspension guru lowered the oil level in the air side and added a slightly heavier oil to the "inner chamber". That made a huge difference on my AERs. No more harshness in the upper stroke and it sill stays high in the stroke. Even with the comp turned out double what i had it at when I brought them in.
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So did he also revalve for the heavier oil?
 
robertaccio said:
OK I will admit (to Fletch especially) for my pre race 2019 Tecate enduro my local suspension guy is installing NK696s WP spring cartridge kit into my AER48 fork, (NK696 has WP cone valve WP factory stuff for 2020) so I have a more old guy plush for the long rock filled single tracks of the Tecate Enduro. And no I do not dislike the AER48s they are great racing forks it's the fact that when I go in the 95% mode they are brilliant and very safe. It's just when I get into the long test enduro mode I'm at 75% mostly and for those really ugly sections meaning slow bounce spine compressors/trials type stuff My suspension is a little on the stiff side. I asked S101 George Spinali, Suspension 101 for a more plush old school enduro set up. So it goes like this.
The shortest possible fork spring with a spacers to keep weight mass down combined with the WP Spring kit/cartridge, probably a .48 spring rate (still don't know) with a ported valve and some Belleville washer type valve stack S101 magic and base valve anti bottoming set up with midvalve direct external preload adjustment. Out back we are doing a bigger bleed on comp and for now sticking with my 48N/mm single rate WP spring, with the option of using a progressive rate spring ( 3 different ones on order). Testing will commence asap. All my AER48 components will be kept intact if I want to reuse install.

I feel nervous about relenting...….but I am keeping this bike into the 2020 season so a new setup feels well....like a new bike and plus I'm pushing into my 59th year =OLD.
This is the only bike in forever that I have not done any suspension mods to other than spring/air pressure rate changes. So here we go!!! See picture this is the WP factory kit we are installing, PS I got the Italian compadre (goombah) discount on the system that retails for about @$700.
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It seems like someone would mod an AER fork to have both a light spring and an air chamber with lower pressure. It would have a wide range of adjustability but getting the initial spring rate figured out might take some engineering.
 
Suspension 101 did some funky work to the internals , I will try to get some insight. But suffice it say no mater how light my comp is the thing never bottoms it just cushions at the max stroke. It's really really good.....
 
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